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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9171S, -67.3321WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019028014. Id of event: pr2019028014. The temblor was detected at 18:09:09 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/01/19 / 2019-01-28 22:09:09 / January 28, 2019 @ 10:09 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.3321 West, latitude 18.9171 North, depth = 12 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Añasco, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3321° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9171° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-28 22:09:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-29 00:57:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 128 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 287 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019028014 Id of event.
Event Code 2019028014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019028014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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